This falls into the category of earliest films that ended up sparking the definitive film making and consumption of our era. it was the first western, the first multi-shot narrative with consecutive story lines happening at the same time, the first breaking of the fourth wall (which we remember hearing sent audiences screaming into the streets from thinking they were actually being shot at?) and the first “blockbuster.”
This film is in the public domain.
I don’t have much to say about this film, except that as a modern film viewer this film does a lot of what I expect to happen when I watch a film. The thing that makes it so remarkable on every level is the fact that this is one of the first films to do all of this so well. I was coincidentally reading Terry Pratchett’s Moving Pictures at the same time, and that added a fun dimension of experiencing this early work of film art once again.
It is a cool flick, and much of what is presented in this film is revolutionary and remarkable for the time considering so many people were just figuring it out at the time. It reminded me of the antique nickelodeon hand-crank films I watched at Canobie Lake Park as a kid – where one would still insert a nickel to watch a short film in a little box made from hundreds of little paper cards flicking by like a zoetrope. Fun, short, and really cool little film that must have astounded Edison’s audiences at the turn of the century as this stuff started picking up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(1903_film)
Garrett Zecker 
Is this you enacting the movie above? That is really cool.
Definitely an important little movie to the history and development of cinema. And quite watchable.
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Yes! Aside from films that aren’t on the 1001 list that we review simply because we liked them, we take a picture that represents the piece!
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